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The market may be getting off to a slow start in 2019, but healthcare stocks remain strong after posting a solid 2018, ranking first among the 11 primary sectors in Standard and Poor’s 500, according to a Reuters review of ratings from Wall Street firms. Along with utilities, healthcare was the only sector to see… Read More »

After a dire diagnosis, hope and uncertainty at the frontiers of medicine When a health journalist found out her 4-year-old son had a brain tumor, her family faced an urgent choice: proven but punishing rounds of chemotherapy, or a twice-a-day pill of a new “targeted” therapy with a scant track record. By MICHELE GERSHBERG Filed… Read More »

NEW YORK (Reuters) – When companies try to tackle rising healthcare costs, shifting more of the burden to employees is increasingly the strategy of choice. FILE PHOTO: A scientist prepares protein samples for analysis in a lab at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, Britain, July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/File Photo But Activision Blizzard,… Read More »